Quotes with cocktail-party

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  • C. J. Cherryh Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.
    Invader (1995)
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Barney Frank It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Gore Vidal It makes no difference whom you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bob Ainsworth It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Bruce Vilanch It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Robert Eldridge Willmott Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church; and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and
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  • Daniel Defoe Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Bhagat Singh L. Ram Saran Das was a member of the revolutionary party which was held responsible for many a violent deed. But this by no means proves that revolutionaries are bloodthirsty monsters, seeking pleasure in destruction.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bill Shorten Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Carlo Ratti Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • George Bernard Shaw Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Harold Macmillan Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Robert Benchley Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Ben Hecht Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • W. H. Auden Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Benazir Bhutto My party would not have allowed the Taleban to become such a huge force that they would need to sign a peace treaty.
    Destinys daughter
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Blair Underwood My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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